The project is held in institutional cooperation of the Faculty of Art and Architecture at the Technical University in Liberec and the Oslo School of Architecture and Design and is kindly supported by EEA and Norway Grants. Its mission is to link the method of Systems Oriented Design with Performance Oriented Architecture on the case study project Wood as a Primary Medium to Architectural Performance. Projekt je veden v institucionální spolupráci mezi Fakultou umění a architektury na Technické univerzitě v Liberci a Oslo School of Architecture and Design a byl laskavě podpořen z EHP a Norských fondů. Jeho mise je propojit metodu Systémově orientovaný design s Performativně orientovanou architekturou na případové studii Dřevo jako primární médium k architektonické performanci.

Within the framework of the first international ‘Something in the Kotlovan’ workshop series, organised by 86 International Ukrainian Film Festival, Collaborative Collective, Ukrainian trans-disciplinary workshop participants and the local community of Slavutych co-designed baby of SpiralTreeHouse (Davidová, 2013, 2014b, 2016, 2017), the Co-oCo-oNest.

Due to the disaster in 1986, the Exclusion Zone of Chernobyl gave rise to an exclusive eco-system (Deryabina et al., 2015) that turned the nuclear zone into natural tourist destination. This leads to the question of such adaptation of the local society and their built environment. In the time when we discuss about 80% of biodiversity or biomass loss in Western and Central Europe, this place is truly unique. Our workshop program claimed that the community needs to take an advantage of such local specificity and develop their cross-species co-living and co-habitation skills. These are advanced through community ‘co-design and co-creation’ (Sanders & Stappers, 2008) with the use of sketch models (see Figure 2), questionnaires and GIGA-Mapping (see Figure 3), a visual trans-disciplinary diagramming of complexity (Davidová, 2014a, 2017; Davidová & Zímová, 2017; Sevaldson, 2011, 2015). Many locals helped on the building site. The participants photographed and draw the local references while seek for their relations. While doing so, they co-designed eco-systemic ‘prototypical urban interventions’ (Doherty, 2005) and their fusion was physically prototyped. The reason for prototyping is twofold: 1] it teaches the participants prototyping skills for all the other prototypes realisation; 2] it develops a particular case study into realisation and its recipe is placed online so it can be locally adapted and reproduced elsewhere with Creative Commons Non-Commercial Use Licence (Creative Commons, 2017). The link to the recipe is distributed locally in form of QR code. We truly hope that the prototype can stay at the place. However, this is up to Slavutych municipality to decide. Therefore, during the festival event, the prototype Co-oCo-oNest serves as a learning tool for observations and alterations suggestions as well as an advertisement, motivating more interventions, exhibiting ‘Know How for DIY’.

What emerged from the disaster might fight to become the most sustainable island in Europe that lost its biodiversity and struggles to adapt to climate change. Such systemic relations will be investigated in the GIGA-Mapping that will engage true local specific study within global context. No community co-living situation will emerge from authorities. People usually address as their thing the things they co-create. Through strong local community engagement, we believe to build the community life from the bottom up!

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